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Google Wins One Against Microsoft

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Amir Efrati

Updated Jan. 5, 2011 12:01 a.m. ET

Google Inc. won a key victory in a lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract bid to provide a new email system.

Susan Braden, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the Interior Department from deciding to use Microsoft's email and collaboration tools for its 88,000...